Condo

We're in our Santa Fe rental through June 30th, with Furry, the Cougar, resting comfortably in a nearby storage area.  It's my first visit to SF but Trish has been here a time or three on work trips.  Our condo is in a development called Park Plazas, a few miles southwest of downtown.  I'd guess the Plazas are about 30 years old, all done in Pueblo Revival style: adobe in earth tones, flat roofs, mostly single story.  Although we share a common wall with another condo, we rarely see and never hear the occupants.

Our condo from the front.

Back yard is fenced, great for dogs.  Fencing is unstained, has weathered naturally and looks great, lots of character.  Untreated wood is fine in this dry climate but would be covered with moss and mildew in the Pacific Northwest.

Close up of weathered fence board with face-like image.

I think it resembles Wilson (winking) from the movie Castaway.

The condo is 2 BR, 1 BA, about 800 SF, with a dinky garage.  I could get the truck into the garage but once inside I'd have to exit through the window, crawl up on the roof, then slide down to the hood and finally to the garage floor.  

The units behind us.

In our unit, the pueblo theme is continued inside with lots of tile, wood furniture and several attractive framed prints on the walls.  There are 2 glaring exceptions to the owner's tasteful decor: the hanging light fixtures in the entry and dining nook.  These fixtures may have been selected by the builder or a previous owner rather than the current owner.  Still, I fault the current owner for not replacing these monstrosities.  One resembles a mace, the kind the gladiators used to use in the Coliseum in Rome.

The Mace.

This one looks like a table centerpiece of vines and leaves that were spray painted off-white.  Several eyeballs were glued on just for the hell of it. 

We've yet to see any of the local sights, too busy with unpacking, shopping, doing laundry and so on.  Our LHC friends, Terry and Lisa, drove down from their CO summer home yesterday, and we'll be sightseeing with them for a couple days.